IOTA is ever-evolving technology. On the 11th, not the 19th, the MAINNET launch is. This is the date that represents the finalization of the IOTA software as promised by us who held the crowdsale, but IOTA is much bigger than just the basics. IOTA will continue to evolve in conjunction with the ecosystem.

Open-source projects are perpetually in a 'beta-phase' in many ways. But the official first snapshot and mainnet launch is on Monday. Then on the 19th Exchanges will be allowed to start trading.

All of this will be made clear in blogposts and roadmap that will be published soon.

for those who are not familiar with the concept, there is a more detailed step by step guide:

go to your old account (the one with all your iotas in it from the ICOthen generate 1 address (still zero balance ofcourse) Wait for the status to get somewhere near 20 / 2917 (at the moment) and the balance of 3,8 Ti would appear (max)close the walletstart the walletenter new password of your own choise, never tell it to anyone. This is how you create a new accountgenerate an adresscopy that adressclose the walletopen wallet enter old passwordGo to send: paste the adress of the new wallet and transfer 3,8 Tigenerate new adress and repeat the whole process

for those who are not familiar with the concept, there is a more detailed step by step guide:

go to your old account (the one with all your iotas in it from the ICOthen generate 1 address (still zero balance ofcourse) Wait for the status to get somewhere near 20 / 2917 (at the moment) and the balance of 3,8 Ti would appear (max)close the walletstart the walletenter new password of your own choise, never tell it to anyone. This is how you create a new accountgenerate an adresscopy that adressclose the walletopen wallet enter old passwordGo to send: paste the adress of the new wallet and transfer 3,8 Tigenerate new adress and repeat the whole process

Is it mandatory to transfer your IOTA from old account to new account even if you don't have any or zero transactions (tx) previously?

for those who are not familiar with the concept, there is a more detailed step by step guide:

go to your old account (the one with all your iotas in it from the ICOthen generate 1 address (still zero balance ofcourse) Wait for the status to get somewhere near 20 / 2917 (at the moment) and the balance of 3,8 Ti would appear (max)close the walletstart the walletenter new password of your own choise, never tell it to anyone. This is how you create a new accountgenerate an adresscopy that adressclose the walletopen wallet enter old passwordGo to send: paste the adress of the new wallet and transfer 3,8 Tigenerate new adress and repeat the whole process

Is it mandatory to transfer your IOTA from old account to new account even if you don't have any or zero transactions (tx) previously?

If you have not made any transactions during the testing, it is not in a hurry, but as I understood it is recommended.

IOTA is a brand new and novel micro-transaction cryptotoken optimized for the IoT

*All*​ it requires from you as an IOTA user is to have the GUI running and sharing your IP to other users. It requires zero technical knowledge and does not consume a lot of bandwidth or CPU power. In fact EVERYONE should actually easily be a node if they care about IOTA.

We set Exchange date at 19th of July because that's the expiration date of establishment/not-establishment of the IOTA Foundation. But at this moment we might have to move that back because we can't risk the network having a sudden surge in tx/s without more nodes available.